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WorksheetsThinking and Language
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What do you call all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
a)
Heuristic
b)
Semantics
c)
Cognition
d)
Overconfidence
2.
_____ will happen when speaking in the smallest distinctive sound unit if a language.
a)
Syntax
b)
Phonemes
c)
One-word
d)
Two-word
3.
Syntax is
a)
what the government makes you pay for sinning
b)
the meaning of language
c)
smallest distinctive sound in a language
d)
the study of rules for forming admissible sentences
4.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
a)
A psychologist who created the science called "radical behaviorism"
b)
A hockey player
c)
Father of psychoanalysis
d)
He developed theory of transformational grammer
5.
What is Heuristic and what are the two types?
a)
blah
b)
blah
c)
Ability to learn something on your own; Representative, Availability
6.
What is a prototype?
a)
A mental image or best example of a catagory
b)
blah
7.
Which is a problem solving impediment?
a)
Overconfidence; tendency to be more confident than correct
b)
Functional Fixedness; thinking of things in multiple ways
c)
Functional Fixedness; thinking of things only in their usual functions
d)
Intuition; knowing or sensing something without the use of reason
8.
What is the Framing Effect?
a)
The way an issue is posed; can significantly alter our decisions and judgements
b)
Language determines the way we think
c)
The mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
d)
What you get when you work out a lot
9.
What is the difference between Representative and Availability Heuristic
a)
Representative-deciding what will happen based on all the factors
Availability-judging the likelihood based on how open you are to new ideas
Availability-judging the likelihood based on how open you are to new ideas
b)
Representative-judging the likelihood of things by how well they represent prototypes, ignoring relevant info
Availability-estimating the likelihood based on their availability in memory
Availability-estimating the likelihood based on their availability in memory
c)
Representative-thinking based on one thing
Availability-thinking based on multiple things
Availability-thinking based on multiple things
d)
Representative-electing representatives to rule our country
Availability-how free you are to do what you want
Availability-how free you are to do what you want
10.
Which stage in speech development occurs from about 1 to 2, and speech is mostly in single words?
a)
Babbling
b)
One-Word
c)
Two-Word
d)
Telegraphic
11.
Which stage in speech development beginning at about 4 months, in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language?
a)
Babbling
b)
One-Word
c)
Two-Word
d)
Telegraphic
12.
Which stage in speech development does a child speak using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words?
a)
Babbling
b)
One-Word
c)
Two-Word
d)
Telegraphic
13.
Which stage in speech development begins at about age 2, and a child speaks mostly two-word statements?
a)
Babbling
b)
One-Word
c)
Two-Word
d)
Telegraphic
14.
What is semantics?
a)
The study of meaning in language
b)
The way an issue is posed
c)
Knowing or sensing something without the use of reason
d)
Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
15.
What are morphemes?
a)
The largest unit that carries meaning in a language
b)
The smallest unit that carries meaning in a language
c)
The smallest distinctive unit of sound in a language
d)
Rules for forming admissible sentences
16.
What is clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited?
a)
Belief Bias
b)
Semantics
c)
Heuristic
d)
Belief Perseverance
17.
What is the tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions?
a)
Functional Fixedness
b)
Belief Perseverance
c)
Confirmation Bias
d)
Belief Bias
18.
What is the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid?
a)
Confirmation Bias
b)
Overconfidence
c)
Belief Persaverence
d)
Belief Bias
19.
What is a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem?
a)
Semantics
b)
Algorithm
c)
Sentax
d)
Telegraphic
20.
Who is Chomsky?
a)
Father of modern linguistics
b)
Father of modern psychology
c)
Father of behaviorism
d)
Father of psychoanalysis
21.
What is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people?
a)
Heuristic
b)
Algorithm
c)
Insight
d)
Concept
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